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#AsianLitBingo TBR

My wonderful friend Wendy Chen is co-hosting a reading challenge as part of Asian-American Heritage Month. The initiative was created by Shenwei (of Reading (AS)(I)AN (AM)ERICA, tweets @theshenners) to support Asian authors and their books in May.

The challenge is for, and hosted by, readers from several countries and there are prizes!

I still remember the moment, eight years ago, when I stumbled across an article by Alice Pung and thought, ‘Wow, someone like me – at last!’ All I want is to pass on that feeling. Like Alice, I grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne and went to ‘Mao-Bin U’ [the University of Melbourne]. Her family is Cambodian-Chinese, mine Malaysian-Chinese.

I've also written about how few stories exist about the sex lives of Asian-Australians.

I have an interest in stories that relate to sexuality, especially from the perspective of an Asian-Australian female, as both a reader and a writer. Here are my recommendations: